Daily Archives: May 20, 2016

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Prominent climate activist Bill McKibben is unhappy that fund managers seem to be putting profits ahead of action to curb climate change. Let’s give up the climate change charade: Exxon won’t change its stripes Every year at the shareholders’ annual meeting, there is an attempt to push the company on…

Dr. Leif Svalgaard advises us of this paper via email. Apparently some people want to ring the “cosmic dinner bell” by broadcasting powerful radio transmissions to get the attention of possible extra-terrestrial civilizations. This paper sums up the argument. Abstract: There is an ongoing debate pertaining to the question of whether Earth should initiate intentional and…

From the UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON comes this desperate piece from Eric Steig of RealClimate and the “Antarctica is warming but now busted” department. Via Eurekalert: Will more snow over Antarctica offset rising seas? Don’t count on it Many factors related to warming will conspire to raise the planet’s oceans over coming decades — thermal expansion…

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Yet another Aussie academic attack on Democracy, Mark Diesendorf, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, UNSW, UNSW Australia has demanded wide ranging social changes, a “wartime response” to the climate emergency, including vesting the government with extraordinary powers in order to overcome resistance from “vested interests”. …in practice there are several…

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale For those not familiar with Dancing With the Stars, it’s a television dance contest that pairs professional dancers with celebrities. Bill Nye was a celebrity dancer for 2013’s Season 17. Nye was eliminated in the third round after he and his partner scored the lowest points in the first three rounds.…

No surprise there. But there are also periods when reported shorter-term global warming and global cooling have been decreased. Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post discusses changes to a global surface temperature dataset from the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) that is based solely on land-surface air temperature data. We’re going to compare…

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